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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?

Jorge Luis Borges

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Improvement Silence Talk Yourself
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Believe Destiny Punishment Religion Reward Secularism World
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Future God Occur Weapon
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Build Philosophy Stone
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time

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